Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

💰 + 🍪 Open-source? Check. RISC-V? Check. Provocative investors? Check. The growing appetite for anything open and remotely usable for AI purposes (that isn’t NVIDIA) is real.

Techmeme: Toronto-based AI chip designer Tenstorrent raised a $700M Series D from Jeff Bezos, Samsung, and more at a ~$2.6B valuation and claims nearly $150M in contracts (Bloomberg)

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

💰 + 🤖 Imagine taking $700M after a pivot. Now, imagine the moment when “Google Search” and “Search Engine” will become an archaic reference from a forgotten time of Interweb lore.